Overview

• On First We Feast’s Hot Ones, Johnson warned that committee-driven decisions by executives with little filmmaking experience are stifling originality in Hollywood.
• She criticized studios for relying on remakes and established franchises instead of backing fresh ideas that audiences crave.
• She pointed to the critical and commercial failure of her 2024 film Madame Web as an example of top-down creative control overriding artistic vision.
• Johnson is promoting Materialists, a June 2025 A24 release directed by Celine Song, as proof of the vitality of original storytelling.
• Through her TeaTime Pictures label, she is championing projects that let filmmakers and producers retain meaningful creative input throughout development.